Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology by Pierre Clastres

Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology

Pierre Clastres

224 pages first pub 1974 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy politics informative reflective slow-paced
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The thesis is radical, writes Marshall Sahlins of this landmark text in anthropology and political science. We conventionally define the state as the regulation of violence; it may be the origin of it. Clastres's thesis is that economic expropriat...

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